skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Maybe he is a very "clear" person. Lot's of normal people are confused and not so well organized. Follow your passion is a guideline for getting started with organizing your life.

I can only assume that the author was always organized enough to put his effort where his passion is, but he doesn't seem to realize that.

A normal person will just put the effort where he/she is told to put it by authorities: first parents, then school/high school, then the first random shitty job they happen to land. Sure, it works, they'll probably eventually be able to pay off their mortgage. But some people expect more from life.
They were bought by Sony a bit back, actually.

And OnLive folded, and sold themselves to a newly created company named OnLive. So, it's still there. And I think still has a lot of potential under the right person. (With enough money.)

I still half-expect Steam to eventually offer streaming of games players already own for a small monthly fee. I'd expect them to make gangbusters if they did.
Can come handy while travelling in India. Especially the little known cities.
House style: http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Please don't sign comments, especially with your url. They're already signed with your username. If other users want to learn more about you, they can click on it to see your profile.
Unfortunately, these well-paid professionals didn't save us from the utterly broken scheme with credit card numbers. And, what's worse, nobody in banking industry is taking any action to fix that.
My point isn't that it lacks utility, it's that the proofs are not relevant (maybe they are to the teeniest tiniest number of people but I'm not sure of even that - most research is about speeding up calculations on computers). It's that practically it amounts to a library of computer functions. I can type the date function on the command line, how it works behind the scenes is not relevant.
Shamir's Secret Sharing Scheme

http://point-at-infinity.org/ssss/

Demo:

http://point-at-infinity.org/ssss/demo.html

Not a full "give me three shares and encrypt this file with a secret key" tool though.
> Yes, I implied infinite dimensions is useful. Linear algebra in QM tends to be infinite-dimensional.

You don't have to appeal to QM for their usefulness. Function spaces are important in applied and computational mathematics because of their use in understanding integral equations (the theory of integral equations before Hilbert spaces was a giant mess), partial differential equations, calculus of variations, approximation theory, etc. No doubt marshallp will respond that this is all bullshit because it ultimately boils to finite processes running on finite state machines, where there are no infinite sets in sight, let alone infinite dimensions. The equivalent approach to physics would be an extreme form of empiricism, banning the use of concepts like electrons (as some logical positivists actually proposed to do in the early twentieth century) and requiring all physical laws to be stated in terms of directly observable phenomena, whatever that means.
The bicycle, simplified (without a chain).
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Keeping Your Company Asshole-Free
Stripe looks great and affordable! Alas, still not available in Europe (request was sent to them more than a year from now). In the meantime, we are working with Avangate.
Facebook will not be around for decades.
We actually do support native plugins - alpha live now, beta coming soon: http://docs.trigger.io/en/v1.4/modules/native/index.html
"Twice as powerful" does not mean much - performance in game is a combination of several factors and a matter of consistency of the architecture, OS, libraries and so on. I have yet to see anything on iPhone close to what the Xbox 360 is capable of. And I am laughing at the claim just like I am laughing at the claims that the PS Vita is just as powerful as the PS3, for example: it's fairly obvious that a game like Uncharted, available on both machines, is way less detailed and less fluid and less post-processed than the PS3 version. You can give the illusion it's "almost just as good" but once you factor all the elements mobile games are just relying on small screens to hide a number of visual imperfections that would be obvious and dirty on larger ones.
The beginning of the Century of Humiliation is usually dated to the eve of the First Opium War and the widespread addiction and political unraveling of China that followed. Though many other wars were fought and lost during this period.
The blue color is reminiscent of twitter bootstrap, but the pay dialog with the subtle embossing and slightly rounded corners must have been made with lots of love and care.
I think these are two different things. It can still be a nice job to have, even if the process is broken. Writing reliable code is hard, probably harder than it should be. Just look at the amount of software with security holes[0] and/or performance issues.

[0] http://www.exploit-db.com/
That stinks.
Which is a corollary of people making awesome things deserving more empathy than usual.

;).
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Bloated, as in, takes way too much space for what it is.

Additionally, it does _not_ avoid excess mod operations, _and_ the implementation is _broken_ because it won't print fizzbuzz for the 15.

Lastly, using lambda's and whatnot's just because you can is yet another form of inefficiency and completely obfuscates what the machine will do.

I mean to suggest that
1) it should be a much shorter read
2) it's inefficient, and wrong
3) one does not simply lambda everything.
I'm not angry at all. How can I add to the anti-math movement, I thought this might be a good venue, there's lots of thoughtful and productive people here. A lot of them might not be aware of the societal devastation caused by the current maths system (making most people not believe in their intellectual abilities and consequent destruction in wealth creation). Math anxiety news sometimes comes up and people like the Wolfram brothers make a case but on the whole people, including geeks, haven't realized how much computers have displaced mathematics.
Sudoku solver in 1-line of CoffeeScript (with explanation)
suggestions to make it shorter/cleaner welcome
Captioning would have been nice too - the YouTube auto-generated ones are, as ever, gibberish: http://imgur.com/kKgPc
10 More Visual Studio Debugging Tips for Native Development
Definitely good book on stats. Hands on, engaging and (horrors!) interesting ;-)
The usual way that Stripe works is that you enter your cc info on the merchant's site and it gets sent to Stripe via Javascript. The only difference here is that they're packaging it up nicely.
I see from that report they have 589 employees. Why do they need so many?
What about LLVM? It seems able to deal with a fairly large number of languages with fairly different paradigms (including Rust :) )
Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Cloud? [Infotoon]
Love the illustrations in this - great example of good content.
Ask HN: Great Use of Wolfram's Computable Document Format?
Hello,

I was perusing through the Wolfram website & discovered that Wolfram have created a document format. It is interactive and seems quite impressive. Potentially amazing (less maybe the proprietary state).

However, I wasn't able to find any great examples of the format being used or really taken advantage and was wondering if anyone here had an example i might be able to take a look at?
Google's Motorola cuts German Android offerings to zero
Sleep Is To Save Energy
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Yeah, didn't think about that. Thanks:)
SmoothLife - a continuous version of Conway's Game of Life
I'm 63.77% down. Then again, my four shares really don't count ;-).

I'm keeping them, hopefully in a year or two they are back to break even, maybe not. I don't care. I "play" the stock market for the fun of it. I certainly didn't expect it to tank nearly as much as it has done so far though.
And by disclosing that amateurish procedure and a barely "anonymized" picture of one of their employees, they are basically inviting criminals to have a go at your third scenario.
Part of professional security schemes is protecting your employees and their families. That's why money messengers don't have keys to the boxes they transport. That's why there are deposit-only safes.
Chrome and Firefox can do this too and it's easy so I don't get the reliance on DuckDuckGo for it.

In Firefox you go to the wikipedia page, right click on the search text box, then "Add Keyword for this Search". In Chrome, you do the same thing, right click on that search box and then click "Add as Search Engine".

You can add whatever keyword you want, like "w" and from then on, all searches with "w " as a prefix will go straight to Wikipedia's results.

I have shortcuts defined for Wikipedia, Stackoverflow, Amazon.com, IMDB, a dictionary for my native language, my personal Gmail, my work Gmail, Google Translate and Hacker News.

For instance for Hacker News, I often want to search for articles I've read here, not to mention it's a valuable resource for getting other people's opinions on certain subjects. So instead of searching on Google for:

some topic site:news.ycombinator.com

I defined a prefix for this search "hn", and so I simply type "hn some topic". You can't use the shortcut for this though, you'll have to go to Settings and manually add a search engine setting.

For Google Translate, I basically type "enro phrase", for translating "phrase" from English to Romanian, while I type "roen phrase" for translating "phrase" from Romanian to English.

Can DuckDuckGo do that?
Typode - A font that can be reshaped
The dialog is very nice, agreed - but the button itself is missing the 'brand touch', despite the fact it may have been designed with lots of love :)
The Year field is specified as YY but it allows you to write up to 4 digits, even though the characters shown are only 3 (the field is not large enough). Tested on Chrome and Firefox on Windows 7.

nb I tried 2015 as year and it was accepted, so I suppose it's ok to specify years in 4digit format
Be sure to watch in 480p, not 360p. I can make out what he's typing, though it is a bit blurry. Plus, if you only care about the commands, he always mentions them - just not all of the parameters.
3, 1, 2.

3: Get (back) into the swing of thinking about mathematics and algorithms.

1: Bayesian statistics is a principled, coherent, consistent, intuitive, complete framework for reasoning about uncertainty. A good foundation.

2. Traditional statistics is more random and ad-hoc, but can be more practical than Bayesian methods. (Bayesian models are well-motivated, but it can be impractical to compute exact answers and you'll have to switch to approximation techniques, some of which are simple/universal/slow, and others get fairly complex.)
This has precisely nothing to do with programming. It is merely the realization that life is sisyphean in it's nature. The realization will occur whether one is a programmer or a street sweeper. It will not occur in the sufficiently ignorant. And the enlightened will learn to come to terms with it and even derive great pleasure from it.
If you write software for a living, I would think you would see the value in a good piece of code.
People are tired of me criticizing maths on here so I'll stop with it.

My opinion on sports, arts etc. is the same. Publicly funded stuff is basically for the elite anyway, it's their way of cleverly siphoning tax-payer money (for there boring outdated interests which they partake in to show the illusion of sophistication). The masses pay to see their interests (and usually heavily taxed for it to boot).
Sorry, am I missing something - Why use Openbox if you don't like the window decorations?
Perhaps it's a matter of expectations. No one expects a salesman/woman to close 100% deals or even 50%,a manager's job is pretty well known, and the stress associated with it is taken care of from the start. Lawyers get paid whether they get justice or not most of the time, data-entry clerks have jobs that end at the end of the day, and they won't be thinking about a product they coded that might have some critical flow and come back to bite them months after the release.

If I remember well teachers and medical staff have depression and other work related mental issues rates on par with programmers, so you would be right about the negativity they also face everyday.

Of course it's not the end of the world, it's just something that is not brought on the table so often I think.
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You seem to have had a traumatic experience trying and failing to learn some mathematics. That sucks for you. Lots of people unfortunately go through that, but you seem to have developed a unique coping reaction. Rather than lay the blame on the school system, the curriculum, your specific teachers, or (perish the thought) partly on yourself, you have decided that mathematics is a vast conspiracy to keep lazy pinheads employed and make everyone else feel dumb and inferior. Your hostile way of demanding evidence for its utility (without defining what would constitute acceptable evidence) is a foolproof algorithm for rejecting anything whatsoever. I've seen hardheaded engineers deny the value of the field of physics using exactly the kind of arguments you've laid out in this thread. They seem to believe that every aspect of physics with engineering applications could just as easily have been discovered with common sense and simple-minded trial and error.
Try working in support for a while. Customers only call when something isn't working the way they expect, and since documentation is usually and afterthought among development teams, figuring out what is really possible with the software is often difficult. When you do identify bugs, you often have to go back to the customer to tell them it's not going to be fixed - and take the abuse that comes with those messages. Let's not even talk about non-technical salespeople who may not really know what the product is capable of and either tell customers wrong things or outright lie about what the product can do to make a sale. At which point, once again, the problems end up in the laps of support engineers.
I agree. I thought about going into academia for a while, and started on a Ph.D programme, but then realised that a large chunk of my life would be spent explaining the basics of the subject over and over again to people who may not necessarily be as passionate or excited about it as they could be.

I sort of realised eventually that given how expensive going to university is now (9x more expensive than when I went), I'm not necessarily going to be teaching the brightest and best. Instead, I'll be teaching the brightest and the best who also have the willingness to get massively in debt and/or who have rich parents willing to pay for it all. Suddenly, the important moral purpose disappears, and you are left with: well, I could get paid the same amount in about five years time as I get paid now to write code. Why do I want to do this?

And I kind of like software as an industry. It's not perfect: there's douchebags and posers and so on. But it's reasonably recession-proof, it's not on a doomed-path-to-hell like lots of industries, it often lets me work on quite interesting problems (often having some satisfaction doing it), most of the people are pretty nice, the bureaucracy is minimal (for me anyway) and the pay is decent. The main downsides: RSI and those nagging calls from my parents about how Google Fireface isn't talking to their printer. The latter is a trivial problem and the former is mostly fixable by posture adjustment and exercise.

Life is pretty good.
Will not be a market leader of flat out not around? I would expect MySpace to be around in some form for a long time to come.
Could you elaborate on "integration with almost every open source project" ? I don't get it.

For me github (and git) is like iPhone, a place for the "cool kids", and bitbucket for the rest of us :)
Mostly because some github/git/iPhone/Mac enthusiasts are rather loud and fanboy-like - this destroys git experience for me. I prefer calm mercurial/linux enviroment :)
As Google Chromes GWT Developer plugin is noticeably slower (and stopped working altogether) than that of Firefox's, having to use non-retina supported browser for GWT development is annoying.
You hijacked my middle-click to open in same tab instead of another one. Gah!

Otherwise, very good work. I was suprised it can even do simple sentence-search.

How did you make this, what is the backend?
Why use such a bad performing server in the first place ? Even 6000 qps is not all that good for a dns server actually.

Even if you do geo lookup on a per /24 basis, surely that doesn't detract that badly ?
Apple's Market Cap Falls Below $600 Billion
I call shenanigans. If focusing on the negatives makes everyone miserable, explain to me why I turn the dial to the Car Talk guys to make me smile.

People who fix things can have a positive outlook on life, mostly because they improve and make the negatives into positives.
What has been your experience with the Prediction API?

It the one part of Google's offering I'm thinking of using at the moment to experiment with recommendation features without having to spend too much time implementing and scaling the algorithms ourselves. The post only briefly alludes to it but doesn't go in any details.
Who Should You Trust For Android Updates?
I think perhaps "Passion" needs to be replaced with "Obsession".
Intuition by LG hands-on: a pen-enabled competitor to the Galaxy Note
so you are advocating that kids should drop +600$ to make games.
While they could code game in Lua, python, any other language/script that would be more platform agnostic and probably more rewarding for learning. I would even put that coding in javascript for a game seems cheaper more cross plaform and more rewarding, and allow them to expand if they want to learn more.
Open webOS: Galaxy Nexus port geting a new virtual gesture area
Isn't that how all vector fonts work?
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Edit: I lied about the 30% fixed. I had JavaScript disabled and the sliders didn't show up.

They have this on their page:
"Zero DRM. There's no DRM on any of our books. None. Why? For one, we don't believe DRM actually stops people from sharing what they want to share."
FSF announces Respects Your Freedom hardware product certification
Ask HN: Inordinately expensive experiments?
Thinking about the Large Hadron Collider and it's $9bn budget got me thinking: I am curios as to what experiments are we NOT carrying out because they are too expensive?

Are there any scientifically-minded HN readers that can answer this?
Interesting, but I suspect "real" banks have a long time ago devised a better solution: instead of storing money, they lend it out to other people. That is presumably how they make most of their money.

But perhaps the old school "let's store money in a vault" thing becomes viable again with BitCoin, will be interesting to see.
25 years? That's a little short...

Semi-relevant link I happened to come across recently:
http://marginalrevolution.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/big...
Developers: We warned Apple about iOS maps quality
They disabled comments on the youtube video. Never a good sign.
Not at all, I never tried getting education in it in the first place. I had hunch it's useless and the older I get the more I think that was correct, although I do look at it for practical utility and never find any (I'm not arguing from a position of not knowing anything). People, like on this thread, bring up stuff and it's comes across as religious dogma, they don't explain how in their daily work a specific example of where it worked (and they should include how there were no other alternatives).

There's a huge, huge range of frauds being committed in society. I think people should point them out when they see it.

edit: I also agree mostly with the hard-headed engineers you brought up. Physics is somewhat useful, but it's also vastly overtaught and overfunded relative to it's practical utility. I'm an AI guy and think we'll get the singularity before any of the fundamental research going on pays off (and that's only a small proportion of the world's wealth being spent on physics education for people who will never find practical use for it). And I think there's also a lot of mathemagic symbol throwing in there as well to extract tax-payer money (a lot of it caused by the mathemagicians's influence on physicists).
just to briefly defend the EU - the 37.5 hour mandate is how much a contract can oblige you to work, not how much work you can actually do. That was, more controversially, recently capped at 60 hours per week or something, which was a massive problem for medical students/interns who wanted to qualify in less than 10 years.

Back to the company, by the time I left the culture had morphed a bit, and people were encouraged to work extra hours to compensate for their slip, where necessary. Still much better than (what I hear of) the US, where stupidly long hours are expected (apparently).
Or at least Android, where users can install any software and the system is at least partially hackable.
Samsung Galaxy S3 Fails to IPhone 5 In the Drop Test.
This is true. But I wouldn't say it is an absolute justification for using iframes, as if that was the only possible way to approach the problem Stripe is trying to solve.

Maybe it won't matter. We'll see.
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Graham Short is a rare breed - he is a master engraver.
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I was talking to a person who had started a company and went toast. He bluntly put it, what remains after a software shop shuts down are 'just files' on the hard drive.

This is especially true when the company doesn't own any real estate at all. After the shops shuts down, nearly everything gets sold for half price.

My chair at home costs 25K INR if I buy it in the showroom, I bought it from a scrap shop for 2K INR, the guy in the scrap shop told me the chair came a software shop which closed recently. That is how low things like infrastructure get sold.
Did you see that on Jeremy Kun's great blog? His primers are how I recently got into building my own Entropy-trained decision tree class and also got an intuition for PCA as a reduced basis. I had used truncated SVD and Fourier bases many times before, but to see it with images (eigenfaces!) really sold the intuition.

Even better now, in this hacking life after pure math in college and grad school, is that I can build intuition now not just by proofs and exercises, but also efficient, coded implementation. Gives a different feel for the tools and concepts.
I don't get that (Nigeria has the largest population of English-speaking nobility.)

Someone care to explain?
This solidifies the idea for me that Canonical is completely clueless.

Asking for donations AND bundling Amazon shopping ads? That's over the line IMHO.

Yes, you can disable the Amazon stuff, but leaving it as a default is a poor choice. At best it's incredibly tacky and unhelpful, at worst it's a security risk.

To me the answer is glaringly clear.

Offer a donation based download with the Amazon stuff not bundled with it. This makes people feel like they're getting a clean product, and many people don't mind paying to support the OS.

Then offer a free download with the Amazon bundled, and let people know that's what they're getting. People can still disable it, but for those that don't Canonical profits.

This hybrid mess of "pay us some money" and "don't forget to turn off our advertising" is the worst of both worlds.
Ads which are tutorials explaining how to use the OS. What a great idea!